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Governor Suspends Hunter Safety Courses
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is no longer allowing in-person hunter education courses due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Wisconsin Hunters: Important Vote on Monday
If you do not want your crossbow season to be shortened or to lose the opportunity to harvest a deer with your crossbow during the rut period, you must take action through visiting the WCC Spring Hearings page.
Facing Life-Changing Surgery, Hunter Scores on Triple Crown
Just before receiving a kidney transplant, a diehard hunter heads out for an opening day gun hunt and takes down the largest buck of her life.
Nontypical or Nothing: 3-Year Quest Pays Off on 204-Inch Buck
A last-minute scouting mission and good fortune leads to a close bowhunting encounter with a Badger State nontypical buck of a lifetime.
First Season, First Buck Definitely One to Remember
Few deer hunters forget the details of the hunt and their first buck, and Dylan Javoroski definitely won’t forget his first deer season.
How Your Opinion Can Affect Deer Season Decisions
Expressing your opinions to state wildlife officials can give them valuable insight to what’s going on in the public and help drive management decisions.
Double Droptine 214-Incher is His Buck of a Lifetime
Gary Barenz isn’t a trophy buck hunter, despite living in one of the best areas of the country to see and kill giant whitetails. Barenz has seen them in his 40-odd years of hunting, but he’s never really dialed into the trophy mentality. He just enjoys hunting near his home in central Wisconsin, which is […]
Famous Halloween Snowstorm: Remarkable Consequences for Deer
Not all early winters are disastrous for whitetails, but the 1991 Halloween snowstorm that swept northern Wisconsin set the state for one of those severe winters that produced unpredictable consequences. The storm blanketed the region with nearly 30 inches of snow three weeks before the state’s traditional rifle deer season opened. Another 18 inches fell […]
Stunning Double-Droptine Giant Scores 214 Inches
Gary Barenz, a longtime and close friend of the D&DH team, had an encounter with the buck of a lifetime on Oct. 25 and, without a doubt, made the most of it. Barenz was hunting in Waukesha County, Wis., with his crossbow when this stupendous buck stepped within range. Just watching it would certainly cause […]